medicine and modern medical ethics

[History of medicine and medical ethics].

GENERAL OBJECTIVES The aim of the theory syllabus is to provide a basic understanding of the most important aspects of the history of medicine and medical ethics. • The development of ideas about disease and illness • Ideas about treatment • Progress in scientific knowledge • Principal schools of thought across history • The most important figures • History of clinical practice in the health pr...

Response to Richard B. Miller's "Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine".

Narrative based medicine: narrative in medical ethics.

References The contributions of narrative to medical ethics come primarily in two ways: firstly, from the use of stories (narratives) for their mimetic content—that is, for what they say; and secondly, from the methods of literary criticism and narrative theory for their analysis of diegetic form—that is, for their understanding of how stories are told and why it matters. Although narrative and...

Legal medicine: the ombudsman of medical ethics.

Medical ethics in India: ancient and modern (II).

With the comin g of the Europeans, and especially during the colonial rule, imitation of what the rulers did and practised became more and more popular. But, there was also resistance to this wholesale copying of the foreigners’ practices. ‘Reverence for the past is a national trait. There is a certain doggedness of temperament, a stubborn loyalty to lose nothing in the long march of the ages. ...

Medicine and Mathematics Statistics and ethics in medical research

Whatw~r type of statistical design is used for a study, the problem of sample size must be faced. This aspect, which causes considerable difficulty for researchers, is perhaps the most common reason for consulting a statistician. There are also, however, many who give little thought to sample size, choosing the most convenient number (20, 50, 100, etc) or time period (one month, one year, etc) ...